Job Specifications
Who Are We?
Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by more than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration--enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Opportunity
We're making it easy for all of the developers on Earth to get started with public APIs in seconds.
The Postman API Network is the world's largest repository of APIs, with tens of thousands of APIs to check the weather, look up sports scores, book events, plan travel, send payments, and more. As developers, we know there's no better feeling in the world than seeing your code work, especially when you're integrating with someone else's API. We're making it easy for developers to achieve that outcome as quickly as possible.
We're looking for an experienced engineer who is excited not only about hands-on building as we ship and iterate on a weekly basis to get our product ready for GA, but who can also serve as a role model and mentor to other engineers. This role involves making key technical decisions and improvements to the system, as well as effectively making impact through influence within and across teams that span multiple time zones.
What You'll Do
Lead the development of new capabilities for the Postman API Network, driving both the frontend architecture and backend API development to improve user experience at scale.
Architect and implement scalable, high-performance systems that enable rapid iteration and experimentation on core product features while maintaining system reliability.
Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence across the team. Be a role model for the team.
Facilitate clear and effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and unblocking any challenges to achieve business goals.
About You
We're looking for a skilled engineer who combines technical leadership with hands-on coding. You excel at solving complex problems, mentoring others, and delivering scalable systems quickly and pragmatically, driving high-impact projects from concept to completion.
Product and user-focused mindset. You have the ability to deeply understand your users' needs and are skilled at translating them into well-scoped technical solutions.
Moves fast. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about rapidly iterating on features to achieve business goals.
Pragmatic problem solver. You get excited about figuring out the minimal, most efficient way to build the next feature.
Expert in system architecture. You have a deep understanding of building scalable, high-performance systems that allow rapid iteration and experimentation.
Strong communication skills. You excel at facilitating clear and effective communication within your team and across departments, ensuring alignment and proactively unblocking challenges to achieve business goals.
Remote collaboration. You effectively collaborate across time zones, ensuring team engagement and alignment.
Must Have
7+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.
Proficient with React, JavaScript, and Node.js.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.
Track record of delivering high-impact, user-facing products.
Passionate about mentoring and developing other engineers.
Coding experience, with recent examples of contributing significantly to core features in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Strong experience in communicating across teams, aligning stakeholders, and unblocking challenges to ensure business goals are met.
Experience working with remote and distributed teams across time zones.
Located between ET and CET.
Nice-to-have
Proficient with TypeScript
Experience working on scaling products.
Experience working in a two-sided network
Experience working on developer tools.
This role is based in the greater New York City area. The reasonably estimated salary can be requested anytime. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
What Else?
In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend.
About the Company
Postman is the world’s leading API platform. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today.
Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly. Check out our open positions if you’d like to learn more: https://www.postman.com/careers/
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